Gifts for a Teenager Who's Into Science
By what they are into right now: space, dinosaurs, robots, storms, rocks, code, the gym. Plus the one thing to get right, which is the size.
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Short explainers of the science on the plates, and guides for choosing one. New pieces with every series.
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The Satellite Students Build: CubeSats, Landers, Probes and a Folding Mirror
What a CubeSat is, why a university class can build one, how it gets to orbit, and what the lander, the probe and the segmented mirror in the Apogee series are each built to do.
How Deep Is the Deep Sea? Bathyal, Abyssal, and Who Lives There
The ocean in layers, from the sunlit zone to the trenches, the animals that had to invent light to live there, and the century of machines built to follow them down.
Why Crystals Have Flat Faces
A crystal's shape is its lattice showing through. How habit, cleavage and growth rate decide what pyrite, fluorite, bismuth and native copper look like, and what euhedral means.
Severe Weather, Plate by Plate
What makes a thunderstorm severe, how a supercell starts to spin, why a hurricane's eyewall carries the strongest wind on the planet, and the warning flags that go with each. The six Severe plates, explained.
Every Element Has a Fingerprint: How Emission Spectra Work
Heat a gas and it emits a few precise colours, not a rainbow. Here's the physics — energy levels, photons, the Balmer series — and why every element's line pattern is unique.
How to Read a Phylogenetic Tree (and Why It's on a Shirt)
A phylogenetic tree is a picture of ancestry. Here's how to read one — tips, nodes, sister groups, clades, and the misreadings to avoid — and why Lunthra's Clade collection puts real trees on shirts.